If you could time travel who would you visit?

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HoboNinja

HoboNinja

Ok so a comment on another forum about wishing they could have met Carl Sagan got me thinking, if you could time travel, what deceased people would you visit?

Carl Sagan
Albert Einstein
Douglas Adams
J.R.R. Tolkien
Edwin Hubble
Isaac Asimov
George Washington
Abe Lincoln
Richard Feynman
Niels Bohr
Max Planck
Werner Heisenberg
John Atanasoff
Clifford Berry
Frank Herbert
Kurt Vonnegut
Philip K. Dick
Arthur C Clarke
 
P

Philosopher B.

Actually that list is fucking rad. Off the top of my head, I would add to that P.G. Wodehouse, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and Bill Hicks.
 
General Specific

General Specific

I would make another deceased person for people to visit. Much like Patton Oswalt, I would go back in time and kill George Lucas with a shovel to stop the prequels from being made.


**NSFW** Language
 
Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

My favourite authors, of course! Including Asimov, K. Dick, Tolkien, Wells... I wouldn't know what to tell them, and my visit could potentially kill what little sanity was in PKD head, but still!
 
Denbrought

Denbrought

Assuming this came with a babel-fish-like gizmo.

The inventor of man-made fire, the first job-segregated tribe, Euclid, Hippocrates, Xerxes, Rafael Casanovas, Francesc Macià, Theodore Roosevelt, Ms. Roosevelt, Hitler, Mao, and most of the writers mentioned above.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

The first person to ever take milk from a cow.
The engineers of the pyramids in Egypt
Elvis
The launching of the Titanic, just to smuggle a copy of the DVD on board.
Queen Elizabeth I during the war with Spain
Bob Kane, just to worship him for a little while.
Robert Roy
Robert Burns
James Doohan
 
M

makare

I wouldn't want to meet any of those writers because meeting them might change how I feel about their writing. What if they are real assholes or something? It would be like a goth thinking that edgar allen poe was some deep existential writer only to meet him and then find out that he just wrote for the money.

I would want to meet a common ancient egyptian and common roman citizen. We dont know much about them because they weren't important enough to write much about.
 
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Wasabi Poptart

My great-grandmothers on my mom's side. One died before I was born. The other had Alzheimer's and most of my memories of her revolve around her delusional outbursts. My mom tells me she was a neat lady.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Ooh, Walt Disney for me, too. First, I'd shake his hand for all the wonderful creations...then punch him hard in the face for being a racist douche.

Also, how the hell did I forget to mention Jack freakin' Kirby?
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Assuming some type of translator device/fish and being able to blend in enough that I didn't completely seem like an alien to any of them...

Jesus Christ
Walt Disney
Sun Tzu
Confucius
Mark Twain
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
George Washington
Ben Franklin
 
C

crono1224

If I could hang out with them maybe Frank Sinatra, since it seems like it would be fun to be on top of the world at one point. (so to speak).
 
phil

phil

Muhamad and Jesus, or at least whoever thought them up and get them to include a no douchbag rule and a no killing in the name of your god rule.


I'd hang out with the first Rigney to come to America.

That guy on my mom's side who escaped capture by both native Americans and mexicans alike.

The asshole who donated his farm to the church (dad's side this time I should point out) rather than give it to his daughter.

Then back to the religious figures to get them to take out that shit about women and gays.
 
M

Matt²

I'd go back to July 2000 and drag my mom to the hospital and take a MRI.. which would have saved her life.
 
J

Jiarn

The only time travel I can see myself doing is either to go back in time and tell myself something that will enable me to be rich beyond words

or

place a bottle of wine in a secret place, travel to the future, pick it up, bring it back and enjoy it with a nice meal.
 
phil

phil

.Amy.;425051][QUOTE=Sparhawk said:
Assuming some type of translator device/fish and being able to blend in enough that I didn't completely seem like an alien to any of them...
Jesus Christ
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Can I add Frodo, then?

What?[/QUOTE]

BAM

she packed her bags, bought a plane ticket, took her shoes off for the security guys, tried to ignore that the pat down was more of a rub down, boarded the plane and went there.
 
FnordBear

FnordBear

My Grandpa...just so he knows my life has turned out pretty much ok.
Probably myself too as a young kid, just to let me know it all pretty much turns out ok....and maybe to give me to powerball numbers.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

.Amy.;425051][QUOTE=Sparhawk said:
Assuming some type of translator device/fish and being able to blend in enough that I didn't completely seem like an alien to any of them...
Jesus Christ
Click to expand...
Can I add Frodo, then?

What?[/QUOTE]

Sure, go for it.

phil;425081][QUOTE=.Amy.;425051][QUOTE=Sparhawk said:
Assuming some type of translator device/fish and being able to blend in enough that I didn't completely seem like an alien to any of them...
Jesus Christ
Click to expand...
Can I add Frodo, then?

What?[/QUOTE]

BAM

she packed her bags, bought a plane ticket, took her shoes off for the security guys, tried to ignore that the pat down was more of a rub down, boarded the plane and went there.[/QUOTE]

What, you think I would be offended by that? :rolleyes:
 
nfldraftman

nfldraftman

Napoleon
Billy the Kid
Abraham Lincoln
Joan of Arc
Genghis Khan
Socrates
Sigmund Freud
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Two Cute Princesses from the Middle Ages

and I'd do it all with the help of some guy from the future named Rufus...
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

CincyGuy said:
Napoleon
Billy the Kid
Abraham Lincoln
Joan of Arc
Genghis Khan
Socrates
Sigmund Freud
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Two Cute Princesses from the Middle Ages

and I'd do it all with the help of some guy from the future named Rufus...
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EXCELLENT! WYLD STALLIONS!
 
Dave

Dave

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Sparhawk;425259][QUOTE=CincyGuy said:
Napoleon
Billy the Kid
Abraham Lincoln
Joan of Arc
Genghis Khan
Socrates
Sigmund Freud
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Two Cute Princesses from the Middle Ages

and I'd do it all with the help of some guy from the future named Rufus...
Click to expand...
EXCELLENT! WYLD STALLIONS![/QUOTE]

Remember when you asked your mom to prom?



[/shutupTed!]
 
Math242

Math242

my best friend in 2002 to tell him not to fall asleep and kill himself while driving home.

If i can't change the past/future, then Ramses II
 
Wahad

Wahad

Nietzsche
Socrates (if he didn't exist, then Plato)
Aristotle
Wittgenstein
Hobbes
Hume
Locke
Siddartha Gautama
Jesus
Mohammed
Homer
Voltaire (because he seems a crazy awesome son of a bitch)
 
Terrik

Terrik

Sparhawk;425088][QUOTE=.Amy.;425051][QUOTE=Sparhawk said:
Assuming some type of translator device/fish and being able to blend in enough that I didn't completely seem like an alien to any of them...
Jesus Christ
Click to expand...
Can I add Frodo, then?

What?[/QUOTE]

Sure, go for it.

phil;425081][QUOTE=.Amy.;425051][QUOTE=Sparhawk said:
Assuming some type of translator device/fish and being able to blend in enough that I didn't completely seem like an alien to any of them...
Jesus Christ
Click to expand...
Can I add Frodo, then?

What?[/QUOTE]

BAM

she packed her bags, bought a plane ticket, took her shoes off for the security guys, tried to ignore that the pat down was more of a rub down, boarded the plane and went there.[/QUOTE]

What, you think I would be offended by that? :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]


Well I'm offended. :humph:
 
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